Wisconsin State Journal Headline: Commerical building is strong in suburbs.
Let’s read this again: “Commerical”, ostensibly from the modern English root word Commer, meaning a British manufacturer of commercial vehicles founded in 1905 and surviving for years largely by building military trucks. For a moment, I thought the socialist High Road COWS had found a way to lure defense manufacturing jobs back into Dane County, but it turns out only to be typo.
The point of the story is that there is more commercial building going on outside of the city limits, than underneath the jurisdictional thumb of the People’s Republic of Madison.
Fitchburg was Dane County's No. 1 spot - outside Madison - for commercial construction starts over the past 12 months, with $72 million worth of major projects. For a city that's one-10th the size of Madison, Fitchburg alone had enough new offices and stores going up to equal more than one-fourth the value of Madison's nonresidential building starts during that time period. … Crook also credits the favorable tax climate and aggressive business development office in the city of 22,000 along Madison's Southwest Side.
Verona and Middleton are also seeing business growth and while the article doesn’t come out and say the City of Madison’s active interference with private business is a disincentive, it is not hard to believe that keeping business expansion a business operation rather than an exercise in social justice, tends to make working with the surrounding communities more attractive.
